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The Time Machine: An Invention

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Full Title:

The Time Machine: An Invention

Contributors:

By (Author) H. G. Wells
Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin
Illustrated by W.A. Dwiggins

ISBN:

9780375761188

Publisher:

Random House USA Inc

Imprint:

Modern Library Inc

Publication Date:

1st April 2003

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Other Subjects:

Classic fiction: general and literary

Dewey:

823.912

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

136

Dimensions:

Width 132mm, Height 202mm, Spine 9mm

Weight:

122g

Description

When the intrepid Time Traveller finds himself in the year 802, 701 he encounters a seemingly utopian society of evolved human beings but then unearths the dark secret that sets mankind on course towards its inevitable destruction. Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide.

Reviews

[Wells] contrives to give over humanity into the clutches of the Impossible and yet manages to keep it down (or up) to its humanity, to its flesh, blood, sorrow, folly. Joseph Conrad

Author Bio

Ursula K. Le Guin has published more than one hundred short stories, two collections of essays, eleven books for children, five volumes of poetry, and seventeen novels. She has received numerous awards, including a National Book Award and a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Oregon.

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